tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-120311342015-03-02T15:41:08.091-08:00Doing Justice"Deconstruction is Justice"KCnoreply@blogger.comBlogger248125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-45595986798700099982013-02-04T10:38:00.001-08:002013-02-04T10:38:25.644-08:00Happy 100th Birthday, Revolutionary Rosa Parks<a href="http://msmagazine.com/blog/2013/02/04/happy-100th-birthday-revolutionary-rosa-parks/">Happy 100th Birthday, Revolutionary Rosa Parks</a>KCnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-41976227098659267832012-08-29T12:24:00.001-07:002012-08-29T12:24:09.738-07:00Read it. Read every word.<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829#ixzz24xsYWnrA">Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital</a><br /><br />How the GOP presidential candidate and his private equity firm staged an epic wealth grab, destroyed jobs – and stuck others with the bill<br />KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-54363604647434096232012-07-01T11:05:00.001-07:002012-07-01T11:07:12.093-07:00You Knew There Had To Be A Catch.<blockquote><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/opinion/sunday/no-respite-for-liberals.html?smid=pl-share">No Respite for Liberals</a><br />The conservative majority laid down a cache of weapons for future courts to attack legislative achievements of the New Deal and the Great Society and to prevent new progressive legislation.</blockquote><br />Pamela S. Karlan, New York Times p. SR 1, Sunday, July 1, 2012.KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-57031526714713502342012-02-03T10:57:00.001-08:002012-02-03T10:58:12.392-08:00Fair And BalancedRight-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers, says study.<br />Children with low intelligence grow up to be prejudiced<br />Right-wing views make the less intelligent feel 'safe'<br />Analysis of more than 15,000 people<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2095549/Right-wingers-intelligent-left-wingers-says-controversial-study--conservative-politics-lead-people-racist.html#ixzz1lLYE8Gkv">Read more</a>.<br /><br />KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-66565448707878896122012-01-29T10:56:00.001-08:002012-01-29T10:56:16.314-08:00T-Shirt Travels<a href="http://www.pbs.org/itvs/globalvoices/">The story of how secondhand clothing, given away as charity in the west, ends up in Zambia, Africa.</a><br /><br />ht: <a href="http://thevintagetraveler.wordpress.com/">The Vintage Traveler.</a><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CeCIlgUeYlM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-31114415450046219612011-12-23T15:23:00.001-08:002011-12-23T15:23:28.238-08:00Happy Holidays!<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Y-lHZqNcRH0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-83199413601312602652011-12-16T11:57:00.001-08:002011-12-16T11:57:18.036-08:00LOOK, WE CAN EITHER STUDY FOR OUR LAW SCHOOL FINALS,<a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/look-we-can-either-study-for-our-law-school-finals-or-we-can-bring-about-the-violent-dissolution-of-the-american-legal-system">LOOK, WE CAN EITHER STUDY FOR OUR LAW SCHOOL FINALS, OR WE CAN BRING ABOUT THE VIOLENT DISSOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM.</a><br /><br />By Eric Hague at <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/tendency">Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency.</a><blockquote>Sure we can study. We can go over our notes and take a couple practice tests and pray we get good enough grades to land a sweet summer firm job. But let’s be realistic. How hard is it going to be to understand the complex web of choice-of-law analysis implicated by Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins? Now how hard is it going to be to instigate a bloody nihilistic revolution the primary result of which will be the complete collapse of the federal and state judiciaries and the instantaneous and complete invalidation of four centuries of American law and jurisprudence?</blockquote>KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-77563029097362416572011-11-28T12:32:00.001-08:002011-11-28T12:37:54.798-08:00Still Occupied12:01 a.m. Monday came and went and the OWS encampment at Los Angeles City Hall remains, at least for now. DH and I were there from 10 p.m. until about 3 a.m. when our aging feet carried us back to the car despite our best efforts to turn them around. At that point a loose police line (loose in that between every two officers there was room for at least two more--not a police wall as I've seen many times in the past) surrounded the park on the far sides of Spring and First where we were standing, equal numbers of protesters hoping to be arrested and people with cameras/phones hoping to record that happening stood, sat and lay in the intersection, and police had given no order to the crowd to disperse. As far as I can tell, the point of announcing the 12:01 deadline was to provoke the most exciting and impressive showing of solidarity with the protesters to date, insure media attention and, maybe, to cause the protesters to expel a tremendous amount of energy to soften them/us up for eviction at some unannounced time in the near future.<br /><br /><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/occupy-la-protesters-happy-to-camp-another-day-.html">Occupy LA protesters still encamped at City Hall.</a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0162fd09bffc970d-640wi" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0162fd09bffc970d-640wi" width="320" /></a></div>Photo LA Times, maybe Rick Loomis?KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-6304401044619584432011-11-27T12:51:00.000-08:002011-11-27T12:51:46.854-08:00Villaraigosa Orders Occupy Protesters To Leave City Hall By Monday « CBS Los Angeles<div>The City says a "long term" encampment is "not sustainable" and therefore Occupy LA must move. Incentives to relocate were offered, but all addressed the comfort of the protesters, not the consideration of our demands. The 99% want changes in the system, not a better place to camp. The Mayor and Police Chief need to recognize that they, too, are among the 99% who work for the benefit of the other 1%.</div><div><br /></div><div>It is ironic that the public needs to be evicted from the park to restore "public access" to the park.</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/11/25/mayor-orders-occupy-la-protesters-to-leave-by-monday/#.TtKfcgQl5ac.blogger">Villaraigosa Orders Occupy Protesters To Leave City Hall By Monday « CBS Los Angeles</a><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.occupylosangeles.org/?q=nov2011response">Occupy LA General Assembly's Response to the Eviction Order.</a></div>KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-40286423817669274282011-11-26T12:16:00.000-08:002011-11-26T12:18:44.478-08:00New York Times Financial Advice: Be an Unpaid Intern Through Your 20s (Then Work till You’re 100)<div>Excellent analysis of recent anti-law school coverage; dead on.&nbsp;</div><a href="http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2011/11/new-york-times-financial-advice-be-an-unpaid-intern-through-your-20s-then-work-till-youre-100.html">New York Times Financial Advice: Be an Unpaid Intern Through Your 20s (Then Work till You're 100)</a>KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-40199703974878454082011-11-23T12:00:00.000-08:002011-11-23T12:01:38.044-08:00My Hero and Friend Jim Lafferty Arrested @ Occupy Wall Street Protest<iframe width="459" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/t8HSEh26VkM?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-20139487843120315132011-11-18T11:13:00.001-08:002011-11-18T11:13:21.921-08:00Cookie Monster on Occupy MovementYes, there always going to be rich and poor. But we used to live in country where rich owned factory and make 30 times what factory worked make. Now we live in country where rich make money by lying about value of derivative bonds and make 3000 times what factory worker would make if factories hadn't all moved to China.<br /><br />Capitalism great system. We won Cold War because people behind Iron Curtain look over wall, and see how much more plentiful and delicious cookies are in West, and how we have choice of different bakeries, not just state-owned one. It great system. It got us out of Depression, won WWII, built middle class, built country's infrastructure from highways to Hoover Dam to Oreo factory to electrifying rural South. It system that reward hard work and fair play, and everyone do fair share and everyone benefit. Rich get richer, poor get richer, everyone happy. It great system.<br /><br />Then after Reagan, Republicans decide to make number one priority destroying that system. Now we have system where richest Americans ones who find ways to game system - your friends on Wall Street - and poorest Americans ones who thought working hard would get them American dream, when in fact it get them pink slip when job outsourced to 10-year-old in Mumbai slum. And corporations have more influence over government than people (or monsters).<br /><br />It not about rich people having more money. It about how they got money. It about how they take opportunity away from rest of us, for sake of having more money. It how they willing to take risks that destroy economy - knowing full well that what could and would happen - putting millions out of work, while creating nothing of value, and all the while crowing that they John Galt, creating wealth for everyone.<br /><br />That what the soul-searching about. When Liberals run country for 30 years following New Deal, American economy double in size, and wages double along with it. That fair. When Conservatives run country for 30 years following Reagan, American economy double again, and wages stay flat. What happen to our share of money? All of it go to richest 1%. That not "there always going to be rich people". That unfair system. That why we upset. That what Occupy Sesame Street about.<br /><br />Originally posted as comment <a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-muppets-backlash-has-begun,63818/#comment-340869756">here.</a>KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-15590875204805517772011-11-17T11:00:00.001-08:002011-11-17T11:10:51.970-08:00Live stream from Zucotti Park<a href="http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution">Here.</a><br /><br />Also,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.occupylosangeles.org/?q=node/1970">News from Occupy LA</a>KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-42227965647058513982011-11-16T15:37:00.000-08:002011-11-16T15:37:07.097-08:00Police Crackdowns on OWS Coordinated among Mayors, FBI, DHS | Common Dreams<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/16-3#.TsRJFX4LGeU.blogger">Police Crackdowns on OWS Coordinated among Mayors, FBI, DHS | Common Dreams</a>KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-16742679232352323692011-10-28T18:01:00.001-07:002011-10-28T18:01:47.361-07:00I hope not, but ...<img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-1FInAz_Oy4Y/TqtQeRmTAMI/AAAAAAAAArI/q3fRghZmYHE/wearepatiet.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Wearepatiet" title="wearepatiet.jpeg" border="0" width="387" height="600" /><br />ht <a href="http://obituarytypo.blogspot.com/">Frog Blog</a>KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-61490089034823142312011-10-20T10:41:00.001-07:002011-10-20T10:42:14.076-07:00Jay Smooth on Occupy Wall Street: Outing the Ringers.Amen alleluia.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/i9zkQcLi4Yo" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />More Jay Smooth <a href="http://www.illdoctrine.com/">here</a>.KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-53875576788432316352011-10-16T13:23:00.001-07:002011-10-16T13:23:57.871-07:00"Release the Magic"<img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-i2nDDgyScIA/Tps9XOHAB_I/AAAAAAAAAq8/Tfje85YusQI/glade-sense-spray.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Glade sense spray" title="glade-sense-spray.jpg" border="0" width="306" height="508" /><br />By pressing the button, I assume.<br />Probably I'm the only one who finds this funny.KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-59651735587475063302011-10-13T11:03:00.001-07:002011-10-13T11:19:56.707-07:00The Legitimate Gripes of the Other 99%<a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/10/legitimate_gripes.html">The Legitimate Gripes of the Other 99%:</a> Amid the Cacophony of Protest Emerges a Coherent Set of Valid Complaints. By Gadi Dechter.<br /><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-l8rcbNrFuiY/Tpcn618KDsI/AAAAAAAAAqg/B3hBIk1trkA/legitimate_gripes_onpage.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Legitimate gripes onpage" title="legitimate_gripes_onpage.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="218" />SOURCE: AP/Jason DeCrow<br /><br />This by Henry Blodget from the Business Insider is also good: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10?op=1">CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About...</a> And by good I mean devastatingly awful.<br /><br /><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-DnvUqKUe2XA/Tpcn73_-FeI/AAAAAAAAAqw/3QV4kWfJFK4/308598_2495395062907_1193746996_3031031_811265539_n.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="308598 2495395062907 1193746996 3031031 811265539 n" title="308598_2495395062907_1193746996_3031031_811265539_n.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="300" />Source: Asad Khan by way of my cousin MGM.KCnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-90517254327918132722011-10-09T14:12:00.001-07:002011-10-09T14:12:33.052-07:00What They Want.<a href="http://current.com/shows/countdown/videos/special-comment-keith-reads-first-collective-statement-of-occupy-wall-street">Occupy Wall Street's First Statement, read by Keith Olberman.</a>KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-10009673542954578242011-10-03T10:53:00.001-07:002011-10-03T10:53:02.355-07:00Occupy Wall Street Activist Jesse LaGreca Schools Fox NewsNew York Observer exclusive <a href="http://www.observer.com/2011/10/exclusive-occupy-wall-street-activist-slams-fox-news-anchor-in-un-aired-interview-video/">here.</a><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-ZWDkZiozBYg/Ton2fPEcEtI/AAAAAAAAAps/ZaxcIsujGCU/foxnews-300x194.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Foxnews 300x194" title="foxnews-300x194.jpg" border="0" width="300" height="194" /><br />KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-71135577274794623252011-09-19T19:32:00.001-07:002011-09-19T19:32:03.017-07:00Sad.My four brothers and myself in, I think, 1962.<br /><br /><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-M2HW5JGtytY/TnZfkGnAprI/AAAAAAAAApE/O5zIiM79NYI/250311_10150393953259816_639129815_10415787_8342096_n.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="250311 10150393953259816 639129815 10415787 8342096 n" title="250311_10150393953259816_639129815_10415787_8342096_n.jpg" border="0" width="450" height="367" /><br /><br />Chuck, the second from the right, died of brain cancer at the age of 24 in 1982. Now Rick, the second from the left, is also dead a week short of his 58th birthday. He was found dead in his apartment where he lived for over 30 years, since moving in as a student at Kent State U. in 1978. Cause of death is still pending; my guess is carbon monoxide poisoning from charcoal grilling inside the house.<br /><br />Rick was different. He had cut himself off from his family. He hadn't had a telephone for years. I went to visit him a few years ago and he was cordial but wouldn't let me in. He didn't empty his mailbox for weeks at a time, so mail to him--from our mother, for example--was returned to the sender. He disconnected the electricity from his apartment and took out the meter. He had a job and was never late with the rent. His old beater of a car was registered and insured. His living room looked like this.<br /><br /><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/--Zz-W6QQ9P8/TnZfk4r_L0I/AAAAAAAAApI/2dvnva8c6fQ/IMG_0255.JPG?imgmax=800" alt="IMG 0255" title="IMG_0255.JPG" border="0" width="450" height="600" /><br /><br />Yes, that is a shopping cart overflowing with books. Not scavenged books. Very carefully chosen books of philosophy and literature and Celtic mythology.<br /><br />He loved the out of doors.<br /><br /><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-k7OZUwVoMgE/TnZfm9n70CI/AAAAAAAAApQ/ePX7Uf9e1EE/IMG_0269.JPG?imgmax=800" alt="IMG 0269" title="IMG_0269.JPG" border="0" width="375" height="500" /><br /><br />Now his remains are buried <a href="http://www.foxfieldpreserve.org/">here</a> in a beautiful nature preserve cemetary destined to become a hardwood forest.<br /> <br /><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-1bZTRS3_7JY/TnZfmDJeHqI/AAAAAAAAApM/-v-9b8Yxu7c/Rick%252527s%252520Grave%2525201.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Rick s Grave 1" title="Rick's Grave 1.jpg" border="0" width="375" height="500" /><br /><br />To let the light in I guess you have to let some of the darkness out.KCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-77960240593056783612011-05-02T16:28:00.001-07:002011-05-02T16:28:03.649-07:00Mourning Has Broken"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr<br /><br />ht Rosemary WesselKCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-64572554059130812742011-01-30T12:06:00.000-08:002011-01-30T12:06:19.067-08:00Egypt, Land of the Slow Burning FuseInsight into Egypt from NPR by Jennifer Wiens:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/01/30/133318570/egypt-land-of-the-slow-burning-fuse">Egypt, Land of the Slow Burning Fuse</a>KCnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-10715006142823916732009-08-03T08:38:00.001-07:002009-08-03T08:38:41.109-07:00Anger Has Its Place<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/opinion/01herbert.html?_r=1">Bob Herbert, New York Times Op-Ed, August 1, 2009:<br /></a><br /><blockquote>New York City cops make upwards of a half-million stops of private citizens each year, questioning and frequently frisking these men, women and children. The overwhelming majority of those stopped are black or Latino, and the overwhelming majority are innocent of any wrongdoing. A true “teachable moment” would focus a spotlight on such outrages and the urgent need to stop them.</blockquote>KCnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12031134.post-90803285246658853772009-06-26T11:20:00.001-07:002009-06-26T11:22:24.378-07:00Michael Jackson Dead at 50<object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BtKshycrCrs&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BtKshycrCrs&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object>KCnoreply@blogger.com2